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PLASTIC PACKAGING
PLASTIC PACKAGING
News, facts and background information on plastic packaging.
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Here you find current news about plastic packaging, recycling and circular economy – from business and politics as well as from associations and the media. This newsroom is maintained by the Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e. V. Our members represent over 80 percent of plastic packaging production in Germany.
PackTheFuture Award: Competition for sustainable packaging innovations made of plastic starts!
The IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen and its French partner ELIPSO call on their members to participate in the 5th PackTheFuture Award. [...]
EU Packaging Regulation: IK calls for ecological foresight in new regulation of the packaging market
Yes to recyclability and packaging reduction, no to mandatory recycled content quotas for contact-sensitive packaging and ecologically unfounded re-us [...]
Successful pilot project: Recycled EPS/styrofoam from the yellow bag becomes new packaging
Bad Homburg, 29. September 2022 – With their own initiative, the German manufacturers of EPS packaging (EPS = expanded polystyrene/styrofoam) have suc [...]
